Expertise

Health economics

Health insurance

Health information technology

Medical technology evaluation

STEPHEN T. PARENTE, PhD, MPH, MS is the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair of Health Finance in Carlson School of Management and the Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota. As a Professor in the Finance Department, he specializes in health economics, information technology, and health insurance. Dr. Parente has been the principal investigator funded-studies on consumer directed health plans since 2002. Dr. Parente was a health policy adviser for the McCain 2008 Presidential Campaign and served as Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D WV) in 1992/93. He has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.

Is Information Technology Related to the Financial Performance of U.S. Hospitals? An Exploratory Analysis, S. T. Parente and J. Dunbar, International Journal of Health Care Technology and Management (2001).

Potential Savings form Using Information Technology Applications in Health Care in the United States, P. Neumann, S. T. Parente, and L. Paramore, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (1996).